, 1887-01-04

Judge Barrett, and sentenced to terms of i'm.
prisonment of from ten to thirty days.
q. The National Cigarmakers' union. with.
drew from the knights OF Labor.
AUGUST.
10. The cigarmakers of New York, who
had been on strike for some timo, determined
TO resume work.
%, Tho eight Chicago Anarchists who We're
on trial for the Haymarket riot and bomb
throwing were convicted. Spies, Schwab,
Fielden, Parsons, Fischer, Engel and Lingg
were sentenced to death. Neebe got fifteen
years in prison.
%. Broadway surface road tied up. The
tie up was OF short duration.
SEPTEMBER.
4. Three hundred and thirty plumbers
locked out in New York city because of a
difference between them and the bosses over
the apprenticeship rule.
o. Monster parade and demonstration OF
trades unionists and their sympathizers in
New York city.
IL. One thousand sailors struck at San
Francisco owing to differences with the ship
ping agents.
ID. All the laborers and mechanics of
Charleston, s.. C., struck for al increase OF
wages, which was denied. The men there
upon resumed work.
~. -Four hundred and fifty brownstone
rubbers struck in New York city against the
employment OF a n%on-union man.
OCTOBER.
4. Armour's beef men wero ordered to quit
work.
4. Eight thousand pork packers Of Chicago
struck for eight hours.
Z. The general assembly OF the Knights OF
Labor organized at Richmond and admitted
the Home club.
10. Tn morocco workers of Wilmington,
who have been out on strike for seven months,
h. 20 returned to work.
IA. Lucy Parsons, wife of one of the con-
demned Chicago Anarchists, began n series
of addresses in New York and vicinity in be
half OF her husband and his colleagues.
Is. The great strike of the Chicago packing
house workmen Is at an end, the men having
agreed TO return TO work on the ten hour plan.
~. National assembly Of the knights of
Labor, at Richmond, Va, was adjourned sine
die. Grand Master Workman Powderly's
salary was increased to 5000 from 81 1900.
Other salaries raised accordingly.
81. The convention of the National Brother
hood OF Engineers, at New York, unani-
mously reelected p. NJ. Arthur, of Cleveland,
grand chief engineer.
81. The condemned Chicago Anarchists
have beeen granted a supersedeas. This oper-
ates ms a stay of execution.
!. The striking miners at Shamokin, Pa,
decide to resume work. The painters and
paper hangers of Haverhill, Mass. struck for
nine hours,
= Inc Paterson mOluers strlke was ended
by the bosses granting the increase de
manded.
6. The Augusta, Ga, cotton mill strike is
at an end. The mill owners yield.
o. Twenty thousand Chicago pork packers
again quit work.
81. Three thousand six hundred bottlers, of
tue eastern portions of the United States,
struck against n proposed reduction of 8 per
cent. in their wages.
%. The strike of the tanners and curriers'
Of Salem and Peabody, Mass. has failed.
= Strike in Breeds shoe shops at Lynn,
Mass, 100 persons went out.
II. The conference of trades unions at Col
umbus, o., adopt the name of "The American
Confederation of Labor
10. The Brooklyn Knights of Labor object
To the payment of "A contribution of 81 each
toward purchasing n hall in New York.
81. The employees of the Eureka Iron com
pany, at OxmooI, Ala, quit work on account
Of n compulsory school tax.
~. Several OF the Brooklyn surface roads
tied NJ. Settled same day, after some blood
shed.
-. One thousand two hundred dissatisfied
employees Mt the coal wharves of the Reading
road in Philadelphia, struck. Unless the de
mands of the men are granted, 5000 Knights
Of Labor will go out shortly.
2L-Masked cable car strikers in San Fran
cisco attack IA car and drive the passengers
from it,
Eft is reported that $1,000 machinists will
cav the Knights Of Labor unless granted Ii
National Assembly charter.